Friday, October 3, 2014

Issue: When you try to upload multiple document option in SharePoint 2013, the
option is not available to you.

Error:There is no error message in specific, however
when you try to find the option to upload multiple documents in a Library it’s
not available.

Environment: Windows 8, SharePoint Server 2013, Office 2010.

Background: As a new upgrade in the company, user trying to play
around the SharePoint 2013 and trying to get used to it. Based on the general
queries of the users it had become a good practice to learn about the new features
of the product.

A user has asked
that we don’t see any option to Upload Multiple
Documents in SharePoint 2013 which I know is deprecated in SharePoint
Server 2013 based on the MS KB:

User has to use the option of drag and
drop the document from Windows folder to SharePoint Library, which basically
works as a charm if you have good configuration.

Or

User can use the Explorer view in
SharePoint 2013 document library.

However, being a
SharePoint Admin, I was thinking to move a bit ahead with my search, where I know
people these days are not satisfy with out of the box features and there have
been techies doing regular research and messing around with giant product.

I came across a
SharePoint Add on, which give this functionality and when deployed in your
farm, enables the option to Upload Multiple Documents.

I think it’s a good
option for those who are missing the capability to Upload Multiple Documents
from SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010, but looking at cost I would
live my life with Explorer View and Drag-Drop Option.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

There have been allot many publications on Windows 9
where is was expected reveal many undisputed features of Windows 9 than its predecessors
8 or 8.1.

I though provoking thing is why MS has said its Windows
10 not 9. There are many rumours that MS
think number 9 brings bad luck to them, but when asked premier launch of
Windows 10s name, Windows chief Terry Myerson and Joe Belfiore avoided a straight
answer, instead they joked about how “seven ate nine” and then said how the
“breadth of the product family” justifies the grandiose name. So, really, why
did Microsoft call it Windows 10 instead of Windows 9?

There’s also the odd fact that the name of each
Windows release doesn’t actually match the real version number; for example,
Windows 8.1 is actually version 6.3 of Windows. Windows 10 is version 6.4. The
last time the release name actually matched the version number was Windows NT
4.0, which was released back in 1996. Windows 2000, which was called NT 5.0
during development, was actually version 5.0. Windows XP was version 5.1.
Windows Vista was 6.0, Windows 7 was 6.1, Windows 8 was 6.2, and Windows 8.1 is
version 6.3.

Actually, modern versions of Windows are still based
on the Vista kernel/code base — including Windows 10, which is actually Windows
6.4.

You can confirm this by pressing Windows key and then
R on your computer.

It always goes by names, in saying that, MS tried to analogous
it with more common name as Windows One (would have made more sense) based One
Drive, One Note. Wicked part is that MS has already launched Windows 1, when I think
even I had not started picking the computers. So I had made more sense to call
it Windows 10.

The Best news is it would be free for the user who are
on Windows 8 or 8.1 J I am lucky
chap.